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Within epidemiological modeling, the majority of analyses assume a single epidemic process for generating ground-truth data. However, this assumed data generation process can be unrealistic, since data sources for epidemics are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Anna L. Trella , Peniel N. Argaw , Michelle M. Li , James A. Hay

Synthetic medical data which preserves privacy while maintaining utility can be used as an alternative to real medical data, which has privacy costs and resource constraints associated with it. At present, most models focus on generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Saloni Dash , Ritik Dutta , Isabelle Guyon , Adrien Pavao , Andrew Yale , Kristin P. Bennett

Synthetic data generation has been a growing area of research in recent years. However, its potential applications in serious games have not been thoroughly explored. Advances in this field could anticipate data modelling and analysis, as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jaime Pérez , Mario Castro , Edmond Awad , Gregorio López

Simulation models are valuable tools for resource usage estimation and capacity planning. In many situations, reliable data is not available. We introduce the BuB simulator, which requires only the specification of plausible intervals for…

Applications · Statistics 2020-09-08 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Eva Bartz , Frederik Rehbach , Olaf Mersmann

Over the last three to five years, it has become possible to generate machine learning synthetic data for healthcare-related uses. However, concerns have been raised about potential negative factors associated with the possibilities of…

The widespread adoption of wearable sensors has the potential to provide massive and heterogeneous time series data, driving the use of Artificial Intelligence in human sensing applications. However, data collection remains limited due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Flavio Di Martino , Franca Delmastro

Synthetic data is becoming an increasingly promising technology, and successful applications can improve privacy, fairness, and data democratization. While there are many methods for generating synthetic tabular data, the task remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Alexander Norcliffe , Bogdan Cebere , Fergus Imrie , Pietro Lio , Mihaela van der Schaar

Much of the micro data used for epidemiological studies contain sensitive measurements on real individuals. As a result, such micro data cannot be published out of privacy concerns, rendering any published statistical analyses on them…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-20 Joseph Feldman , Daniel Kowal

Generating datasets that "look like" given real ones is an interesting tasks for healthcare applications of ML and many other fields of science and engineering. In this paper we propose a new method of general application to binary datasets…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Laura Aviñó , Matteo Ruffini , Ricard Gavaldà

Artificial Intelligence and digital health have the potential to transform global health. However, having access to representative data to test and validate algorithms in realistic production environments is essential. We introduce…

Ensuring the generalisability of clinical machine learning (ML) models across diverse healthcare settings remains a significant challenge due to variability in patient demographics, disease prevalence, and institutional practices. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Bradley Segal , Joshua Fieggen , David Clifton , Lei Clifton

The Bayesian analysis of infectious disease surveillance data from multiple locations typically involves building and fitting a spatio-temporal model of how the disease spreads in the structured population. Here we present new generally…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-04 Matthew Adeoye , Xavier Didelot , Simon EF Spencer

Recent advances in deep generative models have greatly expanded the potential to create realistic synthetic health datasets. These synthetic datasets aim to preserve the characteristics, patterns, and overall scientific conclusions derived…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jennifer A Bartell , Sander Boisen Valentin , Anders Krogh , Henning Langberg , Martin Bøgsted

There is no consensus in the field of synthetic data on concise metrics for quality evaluations or benchmarks on large health datasets, such as historical epidemiological data. This study presents an evaluation of seven recent models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jean-Baptiste Escudié , Benjamin Barnes , Stefan Meisegeier , Klaus Kraywinkel , Fabian Prasser , Nils Körber

Synthetic data generation has become an increasingly popular way of training models without the need for large, manually labeled datasets. For tasks like text embedding, synthetic data offers diverse and scalable training examples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haonan Chen , Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Yutao Zhu , Ziliang Zhao , Furu Wei , Zhicheng Dou

Recent outbreaks of monkeypox and Ebola, and worrying waves of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, have all led to a sharp increase in the use of epidemiological models to estimate key epidemiological parameters. The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-01 B. K. M. Case , Jean-Gabriel Young , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

Data generation is a key issue in big data benchmarking that aims to generate application-specific data sets to meet the 4V requirements of big data. Specifically, big data generators need to generate scalable data (Volume) of different…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Zijian Ming , Chunjie Luo , Wanling Gao , Rui Han , Qiang Yang , Lei Wang , Jianfeng Zhan

When fitting a multi-parameter model to a data set, computer algorithms may suggest that a range of parameters provide equally reasonable fits, making the parameter estimation difficult. Here, we prove this fact for an SIR model. We say a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-08 B Shayak , Sana Jahedi , James A Yorke

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in every stage of drug development. Continuing breakthroughs in AI-based methods for drug discovery require the creation, improvement, and refinement of drug discovery data. We posit a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Bing Hu , Ashish Saragadam , Anita Layton , Helen Chen